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“Raising McCain,” a documentary-style talk show that debuted in September, will end in the first programming change for Pivot since it launced in August.

President Evan Shapiro told POLITICO that the move will allow McCain to explore big issues in news more fully than she was able to on her previous show.

“The show did so well for us that we wanted more of her,” Shapiro said. McCain will begin co-hosting “TakePart Live” in the spring, although a specific date was not announced.

Pivot is tightly geared toward a millennial audience. McCain’s show featured her talking to guests about issues like feminism, bullying and veterans. In the first season, she interviewed both of her parents and co-hosted with comedian Michael Ian Black, religious scholar Reza Aslan, and several others.

For the first episode of the show, McCain sat down with journalist Michael Moynihan to talk about online privacy, and the two competed to dig up details of each other’s lives via the Internet. But between she show’s taping and airing, the Edward Snowden saga brought a new dynamic to the subject that couldn’t make it into the episode. On “TakePart Live,” McCain and Soboroff will be able to address the news of the day directly, Shapiro said.

“The best thing that Meghan does is she reacts to the zeitgeist in a very distinctive way,” Shapiro said. “We wanted something that was more timely.”

In a statement Saturday, McCain said she was “excited” to move to five nights a week. “From the moment I started working with Pivot, I knew this was home,” she said.

Pivot made several other announcements Saturday, including a second season of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s series “Hitrecord on TV.” The network will also end “Jersey Strong,” a show about the lives of two families living in Newark.